Five special Passages: viz. TWO PETITIONS OF THE COUNTY OF YORK.  
The one Presented to the Kings most Excellent Majesty at York the third of june, 1642.  
The other, to the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled.  
With the Additionals thereunto annexed.  John Brown, Cler. Parliamentor. 
The Petition of the Kingdom of SCOTLAND, to the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council of that Kingdom.  
ALSO His Majesty's Letter to the Lords of his Privy Counsel of the Kingdom of SCOTLAND.  
AND A Letter from Sir Io. Bourchier to Sir Thomas Barrington Knight and BARONET.  
LONDON, Printed for Edward Blackmore, 1642. May 8.   


To the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
The humble Petition of the Gentry, Ministers, Freeholders', and other Inhabitants of the County of York, Assembled by his Majesty's special Summons at Heworth Moor; near the City of York, on Fridy the third of june, 1642.  
Shows,  
THat this particular County, most affectionate to your Majesty's service, hath well night for these three years last passed been the Stage, whereon the Tragical miseries, which necessarily accompany War and Armies, have been presented and acted, whereby the general wealth and plenty of this County is exhausted and brought very low: Which weight of miseries are sensibly become much more heavy, by reason of your Majesty's distance in residence, and difference in Counsels, from your great Council the Parliament; begetting great distempers and distractions throughout the Kingdom; and have, specially amongst us, produced factions and divisions, drawing into these parts great numbers of discontented persons, that may too justly be feared do affect the public ruin, for their private advantage. All which evils are daily fomented, and made more formidable, by your Majesty's drawing together (as we conceive not according to Law) many Companies of the Trained Bands, and others both Horse and Foot of this County, and retaining multitudes of Commanders and Cavaliers from other parts, and by the daily resort of Recusants, and persons disaffected in Religion, to your Majesty's Court at York; and by the great preparation of Arms, and other warlike provisions, which begets in us fears of Wars, to the great terror and amazement of us your Majesty's peaceable Subjects, and to the great decay of all Commerce and industrious courses, for the wealth and prosperity of the Country, especially of Clothing, which is the main subsistence of this County, and is since your Majesty's residence amongst us, and the following distractions thereupon, suddenly obstructed; insomuch that many thousand Families, who are of, and have their livelihood by the Trade of Clothing, are now at the point of utter undoing; which inevitably will prove to be of dangerous consequence, and will be the inlet to our approaching and unavoidable ruin, unless your Majesty please graciously to give redress, by removing the causes which produce these miserable effects; it being too true, that very many in these and other parts of the Kingdom, do wholly withdraw themselves from their former Commerce and Dealing; and others, both Merchants and Chapmen, do generally refuse to make payment for Goods long since sold and delivered; alleging, that others refuse to pay them for any Commodity formerly sold, till the fears and distractions of the Land be settled: Which if not suddenly prevented, will fortwith over-turn all such ways of advantage and comfort as have formerly made this Kingdom (and this County in particular) prosperous and happy.  
We do therefore in all humility and duty, in the sense of our present deplorable condition, beseech your Majesty to pardon Us, if We importune Your Majesty more than others, since We have endured, and are in hazard more than any; and that from these apprehensions, We may offer to Your Majesty our earnest Petition, for redress and prevention of these evils daily threatening danger to Your Majesty, and destruction to us; which we conceive is impossible any other way to be effected, than by Your Majesty's entertaining a right understanding betwixt Yourself and Parliament, and affording Your Gracious ear and consent to such counsels and Propositions, as shall be tendered by them to Your Majesty, for the honour and greatness of Your Majesty and Posterity, and the good of this Church and Kingdom, and by Your Majesty's declining all other Counsels whatsoever, and uniting Your confidence to Your Parliament: And that Your Majesty would in no way think fit to put us upon that Rock of dividing the duty we own to Your Majesty, Your Parliament, and the whole Kingdom, to which we are so deeply engaged by our Protestation, which Your Majesty (to our knowledge) never dissented from, nor declared against; and that whilst Your Majesty expects our performance in one part thereof, we may not (being equally engaged) impeach at all, or in the least degree do less than our duty in the other, which (we stand resolved of) by no means either of fear or favour to be drawn to do: and that Your Majesty would take into consideration, that Your Parliament being the supreme Judicatory of Your Kingdom, the very essence thereof must of very necessity be destroyed, if their Counsels and determinations be subjected to alteration, or reversal, by the Counsels or opinions of any private persons, how learned or judicious so ever; and seeing your Majesty hath passed an Act, that this Parliament shall not be dissolved, or adjourned, without consent of your Majesty, and both Houses, We humbly beseech your Majesty to take into your gracious and provident thoughts, that nothing may be done tending thereunto, and that the Lords and great Officers now called hither by your Majesty's command, may speedily return to the High Court of Parliament, whereby it may be evident to the World, that your Majesty intends not to decline the Law so enacted; and that since your Majesty hath graciously declared your confidence in the affections of this County, Your Majesty would not think it fit an extraordinary Guard should be raised thereour, and the Cavaliers, and others of that quality still continued about your Majesty, as men most useful, and as if kept for some d●signe; they not having (for aught we know) either interest in, or affections to the public good, their language and behaviour speaking nothing else but division and war, and their advantage consisting in that which is most destructive to others.  
And lastly, that since your Majesty hath called in this County to attend your Majesty this day, your Petitioners do most humbly supplicate, that none, either Cavaliers or others, (who in truth have not present fortunes in this County) may be admitted into any meeting this day, concerning the public business thereof, or hereafter into any present Vote, or Consultation, when any further meeting may be, to prepare and consider of some fit answer to what your Majesty shall propound; we humbly conceiving it neither just nor equal (but a thing to be protested against) that any whosoever should be thrust upon us, as men of this County, that are not either by their fortune or residence, any part of us.  
And now your Petitioners do even hearty pray, that the God of Heaven (in whose hand are the hearts of Kings) would this day incline your Majesty's heart seriously to consider these present and imminent miseries that this your Kingdom now groans under; in the peace whereof (visibly under God) consists the preservation of the Protestant Religion, the redemption of our Brethren in Ireland, and the establishment of that Kingdom to your Majesty and Posterity, from those desperate and unparaleld Rebels; that so your Majesty might graciously grant these your Petitioners humble desires; which (whatsoever will be said to the contrary) your Petitioners are well assured would abundantly redound to the glory of God, the honour and safety of your Majesty, the good of your Posterity, and the only probable means, under God, with peace and plenty to make this your Kingdom happy; besides the acquisition of your people's hearts, the greatest treasure of Princes: all which will gloriously represent your Majesty a lively portraiture of him, who is the fountain of Wisdom and Piety: To whom we shall ever pray for your Majesty's long and prosperous Reign.   

To the Right Honourable, the Lords and Commons in the High Court of Parliament assembled.  
The humble Petition of the Gentry, Ministers, Free holder's, and other Inhabitants of the County of York, assembled there at his Majesty's command, the 3. of June, 1642.  
We being resolved humbly to petition His Majesty for the redress of those grievances which we now lie under, did desire to have met in the Castle-yard at York, we conceiving it the fittest place to consider of such public affairs as concerned the County; which we were not only denied of, but charge was given to the Officer there, that we should not have admittance; and when we assembled upon the place appointed by his Majesty, and did acquaint the County there met with the form of a Petition, the sense whereof they formerly approved of, and then upon the reading thereof, generally consented to, and desired the same should be presented to his Majesty, we were violently interrupted by the Earl of Lindsey, who with a great Troop attending him, in an imperious way, snatched out of a Gentleman's hand of good quality, a copy of the forenames Petition, which at the desire of the Country he was reading to them, and some of his Lordship's company laid hold of his Bridle and Cloak, haling him in great fury, and said, you are a company of traitorous Rogues and Villains, and often lifted up his Cane, as if he would have struck him. And also a Knight of this County was affronted by the Lord Savile, upon his reading the draught of a Petition to himself, upon the place aforesaid, the day above: First, his Lordship told him it was a Pamphlet, which he denied, thereupon the Lord Savile demanded it of him, which he refusing to deliver, his Lordship laid hands upon his sword, and almost plucked him from his Horse; upon which the said Knight, fearing some mischief would be done him, delivered the same: And then the said, Lord Savile told him, he laboured to sow seeds of Sedition, and if he would fight, there should be fight enough, and many of the said Lord Savil's company held up their Canes at him, and one of them said, hold your prating, it were good to Cane you: Which provocations, had not the people been peaceably inclined, might have produced bloody effects. Notwithstanding all which, and divers other insufferable injuries, so confident were we, of his Majesty's former professions, never to refuse any Petition presented by his people to him in an humble way, that we desisted not to wait our best opportunity, to present the said Petition to his Majesty: (A copy whereof we here humbly present unto your grave considerations,) which his Majesty notwithstanding pleased not to accept of.  
We therefore humbly desire these Honourable Houses well to weigh these particulars, and to take such course therein as may tend to the preservation of our Liberties, and the peace of the Kingdom. And that you would please to address yourselves to His Majesty on our behalf, that through your wisdoms our Desires may find better acceptation with his Majesty.  
And we shall hearty pray, etc.   

Monday the 6. of june, 1642. P. Merid.  
THe Lords and Commons observing not only the wisdom, but the affections of the County of York expressed in these Petitions, and likewise that they cannot be discouraged from their constant fidelity to the laws and government of this Kingdom, which have their life and being from the Parliament, have thought it fit to declare their good acceptations of their affections, assuring them that they will interest themselves in this their Demands, which tends to the honour and safety of his Majesty, the peace of his Kingdom, and may prove an effectual means to keep us from the desperate mischiefs those Lords that opposed this Petition, would have brought this Kingdom into.    


The PETITION of the Kingdom of Scotland, To the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council of that Kingdom: Declaring their loyalty to his Majesty, and sincere affection and love to their Brethren of England, And the Parliament now Assembled.  
presented by two Earls, two Knights, two Burgesses, and two Ministers, in behalf of themselves, and the well affected of the whole Kingdom,  
●o the Right Honourable, the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, the humble Petition of many Noblemen, Gentlemen, Burgesses, and Ministers occasionally meeting at Edinburgh.  
Most humbly showing,  
WHereas they upon the report and sight of great Convocations suddenly endeavoured and unexpectedly brought into this great Counsel day, for the most part by those who have been esteemed by the Country and challenged by the Parliament, as Incendiaries, plotters, and enemies to the peace of this Kingdom, have occasionally convened at Edinburgh. And having heard of Letters from His Majesty, and Declaration from the Parliament of England anent the present distractions of that Kingdom, they have reason from bygon experience, and present presumptions, to fear the intentions and endeavours of these evil affected persons and their adherents, lest by their convotations and solicitations they take occasion of these differences to raise jealousies and divisions betwixt these Kingdoms. And considering the common interest of all the Subjects of this Kingdom to preserve the late peace, so happily concluded betwixt these Nations, by the providence of God, His Majesty's goodness and wisdom, and the moderation of the Parliament of England, and so solemnly established by the late Treaty, oath of Parliament, public faith, and the great Seals of these Kingdoms; as in all other points, so especially in these Articles (whereunto the rest are called but prefaces) for settling and entertaining a solid peace betwixt these Nations in true union; lest upon any pretence they should be dashed one against another. Wherein it is declared the duty of the estates, yea of every subject for to convene and suppress any evil affected persons who would raise Arms against the subjects of the other Kingdom without consent of Parliament, as traitors to the estate, much more to Petition against it; and wherein there is appointed a Commission of the estates for the conservation of this peace in the interim betwixt Parliaments. All which the Petitioners, amongst the rest of the good subjects of this Kingdom, did hazard their lives and estates to obtain: And did demand in the Treaty upon their dangerous experience of the Council of England there meddling in the affairs betwixt His Majesty and this Kingdom, to the engaging of the Nations in War, which is so often condemned by the estates of this Kingdom in their Remonstrances, pressing that common rule of Equity, To do as you would be done unto; which now is and may be retorted on this Kingdom. Like as desiring earnestly, that your Lordships in these public resolutions of so great consequences to these Kingdoms, may carry along with you the hearts and consciences of the body of this Kingdom, and prevent that the breaches grow not wider by false confidences grounded upon sudden undertake of any persons, as also their natural affection and duty to their gracious   

Die Lunae 6. Junii 1642. The copy of a Letter sent from Sir Io. Bourchier to Sir Tho. Barrington Knight and Baronet, from YORK.  
Sir,  
YEsterday being at Heworth-Moor, I observed one reading something, so as I drew nee to him, and by enquiry I found that it was a Petition, that was to be presented present to His Majesty: those that heard it read, approved of it. Meeting with a friend, I inquire of him if he had not the Petition, or a copy of it; which he told me he had: I entreated hi● that he would lend me it; which accordingly he did: And having read part of it, my Lor● Savill came with a great company in a furious manner, and demanded what I did ther● and told me that I was reading some Pamphlet to the People, and that I was labouring t● sow some seeds of Sedition, to seduce the King's Subjects: Whereupon I told him that it wa● a Petition that I was reading privately to myself, which I upon his approach put in my pocket. My Lord Savill in an imperious manner demanded of me to deliver it to him; which refused: Then his Lordship laid his hand on the belt of my sword, and almost pulled me of my horse, and forced me to deliver the Petition to him; lest otherwise some greater mischief might have come to him; for his Lordship told me, If we loved fight we should hav● fight enough. I told his Lordship, I came this day to labour for peace. And immediately before his Lordship's departure, he told me that he knew me well enough; then I told his Lordship, that I hoped he knew no ill by me. Many that were with his Lordship held up their Games in a terrifying manner; and one of them said, Hold your prating, it were good to can you: and when his Lordship and the rest were gone, one of them turned back, and bid me be quiet, or else I should be caned; and that it were a good deed to set me in the stocks. Afterwards there was one Captain Blague, who was one of my Lord Savils company, came in an intruding manner into my company, and I being discoursing with Sir Richard Darley and some other, and telling them how I was affronted even now by my Lord Savill, and formerly having fire thrown into my Coach, and some other affronts done unto me, which I have formerly told you of; this Captain told me I did ill to lay aspersions upon persons of Honour: Whereupon I told him I did not lay it upon my Lord, but that I was so abused and affronted: upon due consideration, I verily believe he came to make some quarrel.  
Sir, upon my parting from you, you desired to hear from me; here I thought good to let you know thus much concerning myself. Thus with my service to you and my Lady, I rest  
York 4. June 1642. Your affectionate Cousin to serve you, JO. BOURCHIER.    

ORdered by the Lords in Parliament, That this Letter be forthwith Printed and published.  
JO. BROWN Cleric. Parliamentorum.  
FINIS.